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In the most candid look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, James J. Cramer, cofounder of TheStreet.com, radio and television commentator, and for years one of Wall Street's premier money managers, takes readers on a no-holds-barred tour of life on Wall Street revealing how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.

Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. For fifteen years he ran Cramer, Berkowitz, one of the Street's most successful hedge funds with a compounded annual return of 24% after all fees. In Confessions of a Street Addict he takes us from his fascination with the stock market as a middle-class kid in the Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing money. After an apprenticeship at Goldman, Sachs, Cramer set out on his own with his wife, Karen, the "Trading Goddess," as his partner. Cramer brilliantly describes the life of a money manager -- the frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the shark-like attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.

At the same time that he was managing money, Cramer was one of the best-known commentators on the financial markets. A former president of the Harvard Crimson, Cramer had been a newspaper reporter before he began managing money. While he was a fund manager, he wrote for SmartMoney and other publications, making him one of the first money managers to offer insight and analysis from inside the world of finance. With the rise of the Internet and online publishing, he co-founded TheStreet.com, the online financial Web site. In one of the most fascinating chapters in this book, Cramer takes us inside the IPO of TheStreet.com, where he found himself a knowledgeable but helpless onlooker as his own Web site came on the market at an unrealistically high price that it never reached again, a harbinger of the dot-com disasters that would soon haunt the stock market.

Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, outrageous, and candid about everyone, himself included. There has never been a high-wired, high-octane book about Wall Street like this one.

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It's hard to think of anyone more intense or opinionated, or who wears as many hats as James Cramer. In Confessions of a Street Addict, the man who first made a name for himself on Wall Street successfully managing his hedge fund--and then became famous on Main Street with his manic appearances on CNBC--tells the improbable story of his career as journalist, Wall Street pundit, Internet entrepreneur, and television commentator. For the most part, Cramer manages to avoid the self-congratulatory hype that mars so many books of this ilk; in fact, what makes Confessions so compelling are the shots that Cramer takes at himself, be it his now infamous capitulation during the stock market panic of October 1998, when he wrote a piece for TheStreet.com advising readers of an impending crash just as the market began to rebound, or the callous way he treated so many around him in pursuit of the next trade. Here's an informative, honest, and rollicking read for fans of CNBC, TheStreet.com, or anyone who has ever lost sleep thinking about their portfolios. Highly recommended. --Harry C. Edwards

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Cramer, famous for appearing on CNBC as the "wild excitable guy [with]... a big mouth and lots of passion talking authoritatively about how you could make money by getting on the Net," recounts his turbulent dual career as hedge fund manager and media pundit. Cramer tells of his lifelong obsession with the market, beginning with childhood scenes of poring over daily stock listings. The story kicks into high gear once he starts juggling his law school course load so he can spend as much time as possible trading (over the phone, in the pre-Internet '80s). After that, the narrative's pace never relents from depictions of Cramer's early days at Goldman Sachs through the launch of his own fund, which led to magazine columns, a near-constant presence on TV, and TheStreet.com. Cramer's description of the financial news Web site's launch is ruthless, not just toward the executives whose scheming and mismanagement, he says, undermined TheStreet.com's success, but toward himself for hiring them and temporarily destroying his long-standing friendship with publishing fixture Marty Peretz. Cramer is equally self-recriminating about the effect his fanatical trading had on his personal life, but clearly still loves to linger over every major deal of his career (and a lot of the minor ones), even perhaps especially if they blew up in his face. This is a lively, informative portrait of the highest levels of finance and media in the last decade.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Very much in the mold of Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, this is the autobiography of Wall Street wunderkind Cramer. He has led various lives on Wall Street, ranging from inexperienced summer associate at Goldman, Sachs to legendary trader at his own hedge fund. But he's also been a financial journalist and is probably better known to the general public for having cofounded TheStreet.com, an online financial publication where he continues today as a commentator. Having made millions running his hedge fund, he pulls the curtains partly aside, shedding light on the backstage mechanics of how these funds work and why they can make such incredible returns for investors. Unfortunately, he does project somewhat of a high-testosterone image, exhibiting the abrasiveness that has made him many enemies while earning him TV viewers. But he writes engagingly and genuinely loves the business of stock buying and selling. Whether Cramer is advising on basic stock-picking or describing the intricacies of the initial public offering (IPO) process, readers will benefit from his knowledgeable insights. Those wishing to read more about working on Wall Street and Cramer might also profit from Nicholas W. Maier's Trading with the Enemy. Recommended for investment collections in public or specialized libraries. Richard Drezen, Washington Post/New York City Bureau
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

James J. Crameris host of CNBC’s Mad Money and cofounder of TheStreet.com. His many books include Confessions of a Street Addict, Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even, Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer’s Real Money, Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 3RD edition (May 13, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0743224876
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743224871
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches

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Jim Cramer is host of CNBC’s Mad Money w/Jim Cramer and co-host of Squawk on the Street. He is Chief Markets Columnist for TheStreet, where he also manages his charitable trust subscription newsletter, ActionAlertsPlus.com. He is the author of six previous books, five of them major national bestsellers, including Confessions of a Street Addict and Jim Cramer’s Mad Money.

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John Johnson

Insane Story of Jim Cramer's Career

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2017

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Jim Cramer wrote this book long before I knew who he is, but I have read two of his books already (Real Money and Get Rich Carefully), and I have been watching his television show, Mad Money, regularly for a couple of years, so I thought I might enjoy this book. It is Cramer's story of how he went from living in his car while working as a starving reporter to managing a very successful hedge fund, to eventually retiring from that hedge fund. It is an incredible story and I found it hard to put down once I started reading.

The story starts when Cramer was a college student living in a small apartment and dealing with a thief who was breaking in day after day, despite Cramer's efforts to keep him out. The police were no help and eventually the thief took everything Cramer owned. He was left with his car and the clothes he was wearing. For the next nine months he lived in that car, depending on a crappy paying job as a reporting and the goodness of friends until he was able to buy new clothes and eventually afford the rent on another apartment.

Cramer went on to work for Goldman Sachs for a while and then to managing his own hedge fund, which he did for many years. He was literally addicted to his work, so much so that he barely had a personal life. He met and married the only woman a man like him was likely to find; a trading partner. But when his wife, Karen, was ready to try to lead some kind of normal life, Jim couldn't give up the long hours and constant pressure of the hedge fund, so home life suffered. At least until he finally gave up the hedge fund.

There is so much more to the story. If you know anything about the stock market or what it means to be a trader, you should read this. If you know who Jim Cramer is and are any kind of fan, you should read this. I learned two things about Cramer from this book. First, Jim Cramer is an idiot. Second, Jim Cramer is a genius. You should read it and see what I mean.

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Floyd Palmer

Not a guide book but useful nonetheless

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2013

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Even though this book does not provide any trading methods or techniques you can use, as evident from the title, I still found it useful and inspirational. As anyone will tell you trading is not easy and to be successful in trading requires many attributes which can be derived from reading this book. First, a trader must be committed as Jim Cramer was to the point of sacrificing time with his family even to the point of missing his daughter’s soccer practice to stay at the office for important work. While I do not agree with going this far in commitment to trading, it is still important to take trading as serious as a business to be successful. Another message I got from the book is “know your strengths and weaknesses”. If you are more within your element trading stocks rather than options or Forex then stick with stocks. This is evident in the book by the fact that Jim Cramer did not hesitate to seek advice of attorneys even though he was an attorney himself. He was able to recognize that this was an area that he was not the best at especially in certain disciplines. In addition interacting with other successful traders is also useful to improve your results if at all possible. Jim Cramer used his contacts as an ivy league graduate to further his career , and in a similar manner a trader can use the exchange of ideas with other more successful traders to refine and improve his game.
Although Jim’s inflated ego emerges at certain points in the text, most highly successful individual have a level of confidence that is often seen as egotistical. I would use this book to learn from the author's experiences and to refine psychological aspects of my trading approach by identifying strength and weakness areas

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Mike Morgenstein

An engaging story filled with good lessons

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2015

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The book is an autobiography that is more centered around Cramer's work life and career, though his personal life is touched upon from time to time (most potently when it related to his work). Mercurial would be a good way to describe it - Cramer's start that is. Growing up in Philly then going off to Harvard where he found himself doing journalism then law. Through almost a year span he was homeless, indigently sleeping in his car and barely being able to pay for tuition. Cramer got his big lift when wealthy Marty Peretz in a act of fidelity gave him $500,000 to invest. He ended up getting a huge return on the money. In a few years time, Cramer got the position as a stockbroker for Goldman Sacks. A few years later, he would depart and start his own hedge-fund with his then wife Karen - whom he met at his tenure at Goldman. This - Cramer's successful but tumultuous tenure at his hedgefund - is where the book is most focused. Cramer brings to light much of the cacophony in his life through this time period (the 1990s): his wife's retirement (big deal considering her influence), his public defamation and lawsuits from an article in 1995, his hedgefund's abominable year in 1998 - a 2% return compared to S&P's 34% - that resulted (in the worst times) in many redemptions that ultimately almost crippled the hedgefund, his side venture - TheStreet.com (online stock newsletter) and the deceit; the phonies; the scoundrels; the seamy atmosphere and hierarchical issues that saliently came along with it, its unwarranted and ominous IPO; the untenable precipice and precipitous decline. His fund bounced back fiercely the following years, vastly outperforming the market. Eventually, and impetuously, he called it quits for himself and his family.

Cramer's life on Wall Street was no walk in the park. He was sedulous, waking up as early as 3am in quotidian-like fashion with minimal sleep. Everyday that was repleted with activities that started with running the hedgefund, working on his side project - TheStreet, writing many articles, and doing many on-air television appearances then [trying to] accommodate it all with family time. Part of the 'confession' was that he got so obsessed with the market that he often lost touch of higher priority (e.g. familial) things. Some examples: missed his sister's wedding (the situation was understandable though), impulsively taking a call about the market right after his child's conception, and his betrayal of his good friend Marty over a charlatan scumbag. There's two sides to every story, and even though the media may have crudely (and unfairly) portrayed Cramer as a vociferous, egotistical, charlatan - he had his side. Much was elucidated, with what I feel was with much honesty.

The tone is sometimes overtly pretentious, and the text [sometimes] could be described as braggadocio but at the same time humble (e.g. his musing that went by something similar to "im such an idiot") but it doesn't take away the quality or the veracity of the book. Cramer's outspoken and confident, and the combination can falsely project conceitedness. He was very candid and delegated much of his success to those around him. I don't know how I can emphasize this more besides quoting the last words in the text "I am lucky. And it's better to be lucky than good". Take this into consideration and enjoy the book!

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The amount of investor, knowledge and insight to addiction was clearly groundbreaking, and most importantly, extremely brave. An extremely self effacing book.

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Jim Cramer is the man!

Reviewed in Canada on October 11, 2020

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Wow !! .... I have so much respect for this guy after reading this book. I was onto his work through The Street and CNBC prior to reading anything written by him or knowing anything other than the quality of information he gives us. This is one of my favorite life stories by far! Great delivery also on Amazon's part. Thanks!

Vincent Walker

If you love Cramer you will love this.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 1, 2021

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If you are interested in the markets then buy this - a great read for the serious investor.

Dominic D.

Great 90s Wall Street and dotcom boom time capsule

Reviewed in Australia on August 5, 2021

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Detailed, anecdote-rich account of early Jim Cramer, his career as a successful hedge fund manager, and the roller-coaster ride of TheStreet.com from foundation through to IPO. Written in his trademark verbal style. Very entertaining throughout

Edna

Cramer - a must read - for everyone!

Reviewed in Canada on November 21, 2019

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When you hear his name - Jim Cramer you think stock markets, brash commentary, confidence in himself - but here is the back story - and it is well worth the read - for anybody! His life before fame is a story of struggle - some self made - but leading to one of the most interesting - and important figures of our time. Yes - I think he'd agree - time is money!

David Buxton

Excellent Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2018

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I love the realness of this book no putting the wool over the readers eyes. Cramer explains how the industry works and it's not for the faint hearted.

Very exhilarating read from start to finish loved the rollercoaster ride of his journey

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